max power said:
richardhutnik said:
Mudface said:
The worst kind seems to be those who've moved across from PC gaming to consoles. They seem to have this burning desire to 'prove' that they haven't settled for second best and constantly need their choice to be validated. They're easily spotted as they tie themselves in knots trying to justify their choice and convince others PC gaming is dead/ dying. Their insecurity and constant trolling of this forum is pretty sad. |
I am sure bunch of former PC gamers are pretty much aware that the you get better specs with a PC version of a game. You switch out after you get fed up with the maintenance headaches and risks of games not working due to drivers. You know you give up some things, in exchange for less headaches. I fit in that category.
As far as "dying" goes, PC gaming, as a percentage of the gaming market, is shrinking, and is less relevant. Companies are making the jump to consoles, because they have less headaches they have to deal with doing this.
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LOL
I used to play games in the days when you had to set IRQ and DMA values for your soundcard, tweak your autoexec.bat and run a bootdisk to have enough memory to run. These days, PC gaming is a piece of cake.
And no, PC gaming isn't dying, it's changing. Did you include MMO's in your "percent of the gaming market?" I didn't think so...
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UGH, please don't remind me of the IRQ and DMA days, and having to edit DOS files, and create bootdisks, and trying to use RAM Doublers, and 640K was all you needed, and someone telling me a 386SX was all the computing power one would eve need. Today, it is easier to get into, but then, you run into more headaches.
The scope of PC gaming is shrinking in regards to the type of game genres it has, with MMO having a few dominant MMOs and other quirky stuff. MMOs are the place to get high production value games for the PC. I would estimate World of Warcraft is at least 25% of the PC gaming market worldwide. ONE GAME is this.
